Originally posted by: tom
There are about 3,000 salmon coming from this reservoir. Assuming they weigh 10 pounds each for a total of 30,000 pounds or 15 tons. There are about 1 million tons of wild salmon caught each year. So the salmon in question make up .000015% of the total salmon catch.
So Ca is wasting millions of gallons of water that can be used to relieve water shortages & help millions of people get water & feed millions to protect an insignificant amount of fish
Wild salmon can't come from a reservoir. Salmon need an upstream path to spawn, which is blocked by the dam that creates the reservoir. Hatchery fish can be farmed, but they won't be wild, and water policy doesn't affect that one way or the other.
Then are dozens of good reasons to keep waterways open. And there are dozens of ways to augment the West's water supplies other than building more dams and choking off rivers. Virtually all the good damsites in the US have already been used anyway.
